Description: This paper presents the results of a pilot survey of recent graduates of some Australian university actuarial programs. The survey aimed to shed light on graduates' views relating to their education s... More

Description: Drawing upon theory from the field of urban political ecology, we analyse a major strategic water plan for Melbourne, Australia-the Sustainable water strategy for the Central Region, published in 2006... More

Description: Background: Home exercise can prevent falls in the general older community but its impact in people recently discharged from hospital is not known. The study aimed to investigate the effects of a home... More

Description: On June 30, 2012, an Ms6.6 earthquake occurred at the border between Xinyuan and Hejing counties, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is the largest earthquake between the M7.1 Yushu, Qinghai Provinc... More

Description: This paper presents a printed dual band antenna with a full ground plane and electromagnetically coupled feed for body area network devices operating in the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) b... More

Description: Two theoretical models, the 'economic' and the 'optimal' model, have been proposed to explain how the fitness of prey changes in relation to flight initiation distance (FID): the distance between pred... More

Description: In this paper, we seek to operationalize Amartya Sen's concept of human capability to guide a scholarly investigation of student career choice capability. We begin by outlining factors affecting youth... More

Description: The role of nuclear medicine diagnostic bone scanning is well established, and the potential for detecting incidental findings is well-known. This case provides an insight into the specific role bone ... More

Description: Context. Galactic open clusters (OCs) mainly belong to the young stellar population in the Milky Way disk, but are there groups and complexes of OCs that possibly define an additional level in hierarc... More

Description: Inhibition of adenylyl cyclase (AC) activity is frequently used to measure μ-opioid receptor (MOR) activation. We sought to develop a simple, rapid assay of AC activity in whole cells that could be us... More

Description: We demonstrate the need for better representations of aquifer architecture to understand hydraulic connectivity and manage groundwater allocations for the ~140 m-thick alluvial sequences in the Lower ... More

Description: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review and critique the current status of content analysis (CA) as a research method for inquiring into intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) to determine if ... More

Description: Since the early 1990s with the arrival of a variety of new technologies, the capacity for authentic astronomical research at the high school level has skyrocketed. This potential, however, has not rea... More

Description: The Problem: The evolution of human resource development (HRD) practices in Australian-based organizations has been the focus of only limited rigorous longitudinal research. Consequently, HRD practiti... More